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NTT DoCoMo Inc., despite being Japan’s biggest mobile phone carrier, has been struggling against tough smartphone competition from KDDI Corp. and Softbank Corp., which is leading in that area. But one edge that the cellphone behemoth — it has more than 60 million subscribers ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
If you don’t get into the ring once or twice, then you’re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people’s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
The 27-year-old defender says he was ready for a change of scenery after helping Sanfrecce Hiroshima win theJ. League title last season.
Yokohama-based JGC Corp., which lost 10 employees during the Algerian hostage siege earlier this year, reported bumper profits Monday. The 10 Japanese workers, hired directly or indirectly by JGC Corp., including former Vice President Tadanori Aratani, were killed by heavily armed militants who overran ...
A government panel has compiled a set of proposals calling for expanding the compensation system for those caught up in terrorist attacks overseas, sources close to the panel said Thursday. The proposals, to be submitted to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Friday, come ...
A top adviser of JGC Corp. was among the seven dead and three missing Japanese employees of the Yokohama-based engineering firm caught up in last week’s hostage crisis at a gas plant in southeast Algeria, JGC sources said Wednesday. Tadanori Aratani, 66, a former ...
With the whereabouts of 10 of the 17 Japanese taken hostage at a gas complex in Algeria still unknown, the government desperately tries to gather more information.